the latest news in the week's a top stories here on our team as u.s. investigators are dig into the details behind the boston blogs questions are raised over whether washington's reluctance to consider evidence from moscow prevented the f.b.i. from taking action against the suspect. wall to set their sights on syria i made rumors that the military there has been using chemical weapons while damascus baal's its arsenals are under lock and key and calls the charges birthplace to lie. clashes and protests as unemployment records are back to the euro zone with even brussels or this week sounding the alarm over the cost of its austerity strategy. and the official number of guantanamo bay hunger strikers reaches one hundred

doubling over the past week and as the figure grows or so does criticism over the harsh methods being used to force feed to those who refuse meals. you know watching r d's a little weekly line from moscow with me would say let's take a look at our stories. u.s. media says russia has given the f.b.i. a tape of an intercepted phone conversation between one of the alleged boston bombers and his mother the recording was made back in twenty eleven and reportedly contains indirect references to jihad at the time russian authorities notified the u.s. that it was concerned over one of the suspects extremist views are just damage you can report on why more schools warning failed to prevent the tragedy in the wake of

the boston bombings it's the f.b.i. now boarded with questions how could they let the alleged boston bomber tamerlan turn i have go off the radar after they've been warned about him multiple times over the last two years russia want not only the f.b.i. about terrell uncertain i have did they drop the ball the f.b.i. . dropped the ball here is no question they dropped the ball here there's no doubt about it he was on the radar and they want to go he's on the russians radar why wasn't a planner put on him or the russians right and did the united states ignore their warnings disrespect period warnings from our lawns are now i have someone you tube page full of radical content friends driving a car with a license plate that reads their own easter number one all of this was missed it's possible that they were too down by some preconception of who would be a possible jihadi that they were not able to see something in front of them maybe

they work thinking well if these guys are chechen you know they hate the russians they don't hate us politics may have been the reason why you work for this failed to connect the dots on tom along and i have another possibility is that poor relations. between moscow and warships devalued the russian record something that the russian president says has to be fixed if we truly undertake a joint efforts we will not suffer these blows and take such losses if one more possible the us authorities politicized the intelligence given the fact that russia's concerns had been ignored before you yes amada the white head of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists. was given asylum and now lives in boston. for russia's accuse of heinous crimes against innocent people is still seen in the us as a chechen freedom fighter the odd part of this if anything we've been i'm not going to say sympathetic with them but we've certainly been critical of and how far he's gone in dealing with. so if anything they should they shouldn't have this anger at

the united states many ask whether tom or lon may have learned about bomb making on his trip to russia but the answer could be much closer to home according to a senior government official quote they got their instructions on how to make from the internet this is newsworthy to know that nobody has to travel anywhere or get any specific in person training from some expert somewhere in order to accept sions for making explosives when joe parts are not i woke up this week he reportedly told the authorities that he and his brother were motivated by a desire to defend islam because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan many terrorists have tried to politicise their heinous acts but that doesn't change the fact that there are heartless killings when federal authorities look at any intel on a potential extremist problem or political rather than purely law enforcement point of view that could be a recipe for future disasters in washington i'm going to stick on. the case has put

the spotlight on america's aggressive policies abroad you which may have served as a pretext for the boston bombings. at some antiwar dot com believes that the u.s. role in conflicts around the world has greatly increased the terrorist threat at home. the fact that they cite us foreign policy as a motivator in fact for their attack shouldn't be really surprising every attack that wasn't an f.b.i. hatched sting operation since nine eleven has had that component all of these terrorists that want to attack the united states and commit heinous violence on us have in their mind some motivation of u.s. foreign policy u.s. aggression in the middle east you know in a rock in afghanistan and pakistan and yemen palestine conflict and on and on and on a lot of what obama has done in terms of trying to be less aggressive towards the muslim world to simply make his secret the bush administration is quite open obama has to

just make all of this work he's done the drone war which is a secret war that nobody will admit to in pakistan and yemen and somalia a lot of this is still going on and he's still generating fierce hatred from a lot of people who resent u.s. aggression. they also faces the specter of homegrown terrorism and alarming number of young europeans have found the uprising against president a sudden syria and that's raising fears that they could to bring terrorism back home details just ahead. also nato zod talk also criticizes the e.u. for even the united states to ban financial burden of keeping the alliance offloads defense can't jeopardize if they're back to. politicians in europe and the u.s. saw starting up their game off to accuse in syria of using chemical weapons against

rebels damascus has dismissed the charges as lies reminiscent of the buildup in iraq invasion and it's a weapons expert but also questions first stop they say witness accounts from an alleged sarin gas attack could not match the actual effects of the guess the origins of soil samples are said to be contaminated in such a strike all subscale and they form the basis of his ations but washington london and paris or may not daunted to demanding action now to secure syria's chemical weapons stockpiles for historian gerald horne this sounds very familiar. it's deja vu all over again we will remember the disastrous and adventurous u.s. and british invasion of iraq in two thousand and three based on allegations on weapons of mass destruction that proved to be faulty therefore we must ask some very difficult and searching questions for helpful what was the chain of custody with regard to the samples taken from the battlefield in syria to leverage stories

and wonder and in washington was the real possibility of contamination or foul play or hanky panky with these samples and how can you show that the regime rather than the rebels actually used these alleged chemical weapons and since we already know next security. visions within the military is driving the conflict in both syria and iraq how do we know that some women gates soldier in the syrian military was actually collaborating with the rebels watch these chemical weapons so as to provide a rationale for intervention by london and washington these are difficult questions that must be answered well native syrians are not the only fighters battling the forces of president bashar assad they went to terra chief has voiced concerns over the number of europeans joining the ranks of the rebels the main concern is that you wrote could see all these people returning radicalized after the conflict ends

artie's chest of so you're a fourth. if syria's two year old conflict is over the scenes pullovers to neighboring countries but now it is extended far beyond that it's estimated that hundreds of europeans from fourteen countries mostly young men have joined the rebels in syria in fighting against bashar al assad a london based international center for the study verticalization with the tall figure at six hundred. will hear an outward builds of the media coverage on the radicalization of young people has recently focused on one specific story that of a father in search of the son dimitriy want to stop him short of radical islamism group that had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way there hoping to bring his son bad. deal planes are flying overhead all the time when we are on the streets or inside a building we have a bomb was dropped on us i haven't had a contact with

a year and we should meet here in aleppo we spoke with dimitris lawyer who's in constant contact with him and he says the father is hell bent on finding his eighteen year old son you and we don't expect that you will send me to syria i think that's that's clear so that's what we'll also why didn't he. was eager to go in self he said i want to do something for myself a son who started changing about three years ago the problem with to us that at a certain moment he was influenced by some radical list. girlfriend and he didn't he didn't work out and there were some friends his say ok come with us and very slowly started it he was really influenced and really brave to us to grow beards and. started wearing other clothes. preaching for every five times a day this ruby who had come into contact with the issue really for belgium

a radical islam is a group. who's leader followed belka some have been arrested for hate speech and calls justifying the use of violence or if there is a judgment day if you're if you're a muslim you're go to paradise if you're this believer or you will go to hell terrorism expert glowed many cases the rise of radicalized us is alarming many of whom are easy prey the first. question is why they convert and usually they don't convert because dude they convert because of a problem at one moment and don't life most of the if not clear political ideas they go to first because the fact if they leave they don't meet mr you convinced that. they could be insect because the trapped in the net of people who are there just for quoting them and for the convincing them that to be from the scene they want to go so you have to sign off to commit another terrorist attack. authorities

are paying even closer attention with alert levels heightened while worried family members of some the youth fighting in syria have been polled for a clampdown on radical groups the best they could do short of going to syria themselves although that may not be completely out of the question does or sylvia r.t. antwerp in belgium a wave of violence swept across iraq or the swager leaving more than two hundred people dead and stoking fears of a country across the brink into civil war between sunni and shia muslims that's all coming up. and look at the investigation. a mosque in the region psychiatric ward fire that killed thirty eight people this week careless smoking and sedated drugs cited as a possible reason for the high death toll. and

it's been a disheartening week for the euro zone with unemployment in spain a breaking twenty seven percent and reaching a new high in france figures are so grim in fact that they've left brussels questioning the benefits of a stereotype the president of the european commission declared on monday that europe's drive to slash spending has reached its limit meanwhile there have been worrying signs of public unrest fresh protests have been held across the euro zone with official polls are showing distrust towards institutions has more than doubled whole hampel on the newly launched out turnitin for germany party says that repeated blunders by leaders have left little room for optimism. the politicians and the governments and the european union especially in the euro states has done such a lot of the wrong and has misused the treaties we made and which we use we had would be kept all the time that there is no face and evil in in our experts to stabilize

already even to defeat a crisis my impression is that we try again you know to convince european partners you must do it the german way but the other countries especially in southern europe they have to find their own their own too which is one of the most important tool is to get back to the old currency i think that these countries are more or less on their own they have to manage their problems first in their own country and the troika has the tools especially not internationally the two it could help countries like portugal spain or greece. when they are in crisis raging on the climate to join the union is dying down coming up bob to play tennis with me in iceland way opposition is points so when the general election by you by the empty european. ski theatre i made a second to be funny in stevia to see which is both

a cultural exemplary i don't take your logic east of the auditorium so joining me to my must say honored seat on may the second as we bring you the glitz the glamour and the best of the best in the performing arts point here at marine fifty a team. internationally

in the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching our team one hundred guantanamo bay detainees are now officially on hunger strike that's the latest number recognized by the u.s. military and that's almost doubled over the past week but the figure is still follow word and cited by the detainees attorneys they believe as many as one hundred and thirty people are taking part in the protests that's out of the one hundred and sixty six prisoners held at the detention center right as you can see on the chart here twenty people are now being force fed via nasal tubes which is said to be extremely painful procedure and five i have been hospitalized although

according to prison authorities their condition is not life threatening by the strike began in february to protest against intrusive searches and mishandling of prisoners korans meanwhile retired army doctor stephen is a narc is a says front of a force feeding is unethical and it doesn't help establish dialogue. all the world medical associations are categorically and ethically against force feeding the reason being is that it in fact disrupts what is most important which is establishing a constructive relationship or pour with the hunger strikers and being able to discuss the terms of their protest the this is a they they have also. really overrides their autonomy which is very important in medicine we except that is one of our ethical principles so that by and large

most organizations across the world feel that it is not acceptable and in this particular case what it does not help resolve their grievances and help resolve the conflict that we're having between the detainees and the authorities more than two hundred people have been killed across iraq and this week in a series of bloody sectarian attacks one of the dead is it took place in the how watching the you know in city of cook who can choose say an intense. security forces raided a sunni antigovernment protests camp the clashes between sunni and shia muslims that analysts warn it could drag iraq into civil war president nuri al maliki said on saturday that violence in neighboring syria is fueling religious tensions i think you see kavanaugh taking a look at how the facts on the country. iraq is

a country that is divided into three major areas you have for example over here this is the largely sunni provinces over here is the semi autonomous kurdish region below which are certain disputed areas and this is the largely shia area of iraq now the incidents the latest wave of violence really began new york your kook this is close to the town of who we are where demonstrators have been camped out for several months now on tuesday things came to a bloody boiling point when the government forces had raided the area the government says that the protesters had opened fire the demonstrators meanwhile say that these security officials are the ones who opened fire first and news of the attacks there in the region had spread very quickly and that's what's behind this latest spate of violence we saw attacks in mosul in other areas north of baghdad in the anbar province and people feel that this was perhaps retribution perhaps basically just the straw that broke the camel's back with essentially largely

peaceful demonstrations turning into now violent escalations and expressions of outrage frankly these protesters say that unless there's a change in policies they're not going to stop coming out that they're not going to go back to their homes and stop these demonstrations and be the impetus for this violence right now has been the physical clashes that took place and i don't really see a situation where the protesters will just say ok we're done we're going to go home now they want massive change. the same parties that oversaw iceland's economic collapse in two thousand and eight point four spectacular return to problem vote counting is in full swing there following saturday's parliamentary election the opposition's victory there is likely to put an end to iceland that session told from the european union the island nation was desperate to join in the aftermath of its financial collapse but enthusiasm has waned regime eggers seen widely as a textbook example of efficient recovery and it all happened without any major also

sorry to cut dr stephen mccabe from birmingham city university believes iceland's independence from the e.u. is actually hey helping it to recover. there was talk about joining the e.u. but i think that that's the question that they realize that the best structure for recovery is to remain isolated or to sort of to be independent as it were europe does not offer salvation i mean what iceland does have is the fact that it's in relative terms on the edge of the world i mean it's in the it's an isolated nation . and indeed is an island so it's effectively as we say in this country it's stuck it's fingers up at the rest of the world and so we're not giving your your money back home what can you do short of invading iceland which was never on the agenda it has been up to sort of to look to its own sort of look after itself if you like for other european economies much more interlinked into europe iceland is not and

so it's been able to do is to sort of concentrate on reinvent and sort of things it's good up which it's as i say it's indigenous industries. netas top officer has called for more financial help from the e.u. in order to keep the alliance afloat he's accused the block of getting a free ride with washington barry responsibility for the majority of defense spending nato has already suffered cuts amounting to forty five billion dollars which equals germany's entire military budget the military alliances a popularity among european soldiers is also nosediving as their number in the blog has plummeted they too survivals are now depend almost entirely on u.s. spending which makes up almost seventy five percent of its budget hole god now head of the department of international and now a corporate of politics at the american university of paris says the gap between the u.s. in the e.u. is growing wider to pool resources because of the fact that the europeans are so

cutting so drastically and by the way so far the american beginning to cut it in europe and europeans only spend about twenty one twenty five percent of nato's overall the first so that i use the pool resources but there's a lot of problems in that and you have to come to agreement as to which resources should be american and which resources should be european in the past the we go back to the war in iraq in the one nine hundred ninety s. the problem was intelligence satellites europeans didn't have it the americans did that gave them control it was the europeans were the develop their own area and satellite for example so far in the areas the full resources that everybody agrees already problematic this week a fire broke out in a psychiatric ward outside moscow killing thirty eight patients and staff on the three people made it out alive arches you got was going of was at the scene and looking at the possible causes of the tragedy. it was around half past one in the

morning when a nurse at that tiny psychiatric hospital in the village located around eighty miles away from moscow noticed smoke in one of the hallways she tried putting out the fires self but the flames were spreading too quickly and of course we saw the front entrance catch fire we dashed forward and broke the door we saw one man line and cautiously we try to help others but there was too much smoke and we had to run away one view local saw was happening some of them rushed to the hospital to try to help with the fire was already too powerful for them to handle only two patients and that nurse made it out alive while dozens of others didn't and this is a psychiatric hospital and patients are given drugs and investigators say you know that could be one of the reasons why so few people made it out alive they say that most of the others it's very likely simply were not able to wake up when the fire started due to the heavy medication another problem is that the nearest fire

station is located around thirty miles away from here that combined with bad roads were the reasons why it took over an hour for the first rescue teams to arrive investigators say that some of the patients died from smoke inhalation but most simple burns to death in their beds to. the nurse who work that night is in stable condition in hospital but she is also shocked by this terrible and painful experience experts were already able to investigate the building where the fire took place and they see it's most likely that it started in the sofa backing up rumors that one of the patients could have left a lit cigarette on it we're. not allowed to smoke that much most probably someone lit a cigarette in bed and it caught fire obviously right now many questions need answering there's lots of uncertain information and contradicting information as well but hopefully the ongoing investigation will help shed some light on the reasons behind

one of the worst possible fires in russia in years you've got this going off our moscow region. to some other stories making international headlines now bangladesh police have detained six people over wednesday's factory collapse which killed around three hundred and sixty people among those arrested are two engineers responsible for the building's construction and two owners of the factory rescues who's been working round the clock since the tragedy say the voices of survivors can still be heard from under the rubble but getting weaker nine hundred people are still missing trapped under the degree. yes in the u.k. hundreds of protesters that much outside a royal air force base stated not to operate an unmanned aerial vehicles in afghanistan activists are demanding an immediate end to the program because of the high civilian death toll linked to driving tags the ministry of defense has

confirmed reports that the for its unmanned overseas flight was recently directed from britain and missions are said to be mostly for surveillance although operators have the option of using the van calls on board. coming up technology update stay with r.t. . the movie world war z z being for. which stars brad pitt has one hundred seventy five million dollar budget has been recalled by paramount executives not because this is probably yet another stupid violent zombie movie but because the chinese might get offended according to the wrap dot com china was supposed to take the

blame for starting the evil zombie apocalypse this time but china becoming the largest foreign market for american movies made artistic integrity fly out the window to protect the bottom dollar as is tradition and hollywood this is not the first time that there has been pro-choice censorship in hollywood the remake of red dawn which was originally a cold war era a minstrel show against russians was supposed to show a chinese invasion of america this time however they have changed it to north koreans who can't even defeat the us military in south korea look alone at an away game in the usa the thing that is interesting is not the censorship is the fact that they will censor movies for whoever's got a lot of cash is a big market. won't be offended but countries with small markets will this is a complete prostitute mentality show that love to any guy who's got bills in his palm you know i was always pretty sure there were a lot of prostitutes working in hollywood i didn't know they actually started making the movies but that's just my opinion.

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